State ex rel. Anderson v. Evatt

OPINION

PARROTT, Judge.

This circuit court action for damages grows out of an officer’s arresting the wrong person whose name was the same or similar as the person named in the warrant. Carl E. Anderson brought the suit against H. Q. Evatt, sheriff of Hamilton County, his bonding company, Maryland Casualty Company of Baltimore, Maryland, and Ervin Partridge, one of the sheriff’s deputies making the arrest, seeking compensatory and punitive damages for false arrest and imprisonment.

The trial below resulted in a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff for $4500.00 compensatory damages. On the punitive…